A DNA columnist’s short impression of Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar- Cuttack- Puri, Khordha, Museums July 25th. 2011, 12:57pmFollowing is an excerpt from http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column_archives-are-just-not-enough_1568965.
Bhubaneshwar, in Orissa, would seem like a rather laid-back capital city for those who’ve lived in some of the fast paced metros of the country. But what stands out at every corner and along the length of the roads here is the fact that the city does more than its best to showcase its traditional art forms by making it part of the graffiti on compound walls. That’s not all. It also brags of not one, but three extremely well maintained museums — there’s the state museum, the tribal art museum and the contemporary museum — that can give tourists and visitors an impressive glimpse into the culture and tradition of the city, which could date back to 1,000 BC. Orissa is probably one of the very few states that can also brag of letting a section of their forests and its inhabitants (read tribal groups) untouched and unharmed even today.
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July 26th, 2011 at 6:08 am
Yes I too was pretty impressed with the way traditional art was showcased on city walls. If I remember rightly this was done during the time when a lady commissioner was at the helm of affairs in the BMC. These are the sort of things that make a city stand out. Terrific move. Now I just hope some cheap computer training institutes don’t plaster these walls with advertisements for ‘Learn Java at Rs 1299/-, Learn C++ at Rs 1599’…
Why don’t our Babus just get it? There’s so much that can be done to the city without breaking the bank. Look at the legacy this lady commissioner has left. Beauty apart the whole move makes tremendous economic sense. A beautiful city attracts tourists and tourist spend money…Cities in the west have realized this a long time back. One just has to look at a city such as New York and see the way it promotes itself…Anyway if anybody can see the value of such initiatives it must be Naveen Patnaik.
July 26th, 2011 at 8:44 am
Culture and tradition are fine. But as far as forest is concerned, there’s no more efforts to save them. Trees are being cut like anything around the capital city and in other parts of the state as well. Ther’s no visible effort to create forests or save them.